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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-18
european Advertisements.
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Recipes.

BEEF TEA.-Take two tablespoonfuls
of fine oatmeal and make it perfectly
smooth in two spoonfuls of cold water;
pour into this a pint of strong beef tea;
boil it eight minutes; keep stirring all
the time. 1t should be very smooth; if
lumpy pass through sieve.
FRIED CELERY.-Cut firm white celery
into pieces two inches long; put on to
boil in hot. salted water and cook twenty
minutes; take up with a split spoon and
drop into ice water. Leave them ten
minutes; take out, lay on a dish to cool;
sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip each
piece in egg, then in fine cracker crumbs,
and fry in clarified dripping or salted
lard. Drain well and serve hot.
ArPLEs AND BAooN.-Core and slice
tart applas, but do not peel them. Fry
thin slices of breakfast bacon until clear
and ufFled. Take them up and keep
them warm while you fry the sliced
apples in the bacon fat to light brown.
Lay the apples in the middle of heated
platter and dispose the bacon about them
as garnish. Drain both meat and
apples in hot eolander before dishing
them.
PLAIS FRUIT CAKE.-For plain but
palatable fruit cake take one cupful OF
sugar, one-half cupful of molasses, enc
cupful of buttemilk, or sour milk, two
and half cupfuls of -four, one of chopped
raisins, a half-cupful of currants, two
tablespoonfuls of butter, a teaspoonful of
soda in the milk or -four, and half a tea
spoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and
nutmeg. Bake forty minutes in mod
derate oven.
CHICKEN CRoQUETTEs.- good
sized piece of butter in a stewpan; add
mushrooms and parsley chopped fine, two
tablespoonsfuls Of -four, salt, pepper and
grated nutmeg; let this boil till it thick
ems, then moisten it with little cream
and two spoonfuls of broth or gravy, the
fat being previously taken off. Let this
sauce be as thick as pap. Take some
cold roast fowl, cut it into little dice,
which put into the sauce; let it stand
till cold, and make It into balls, which
roll in bread crumbs, and fry them nice
brown. Serve garnished with fried
Darsley
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Indian Ornaments.

There are but few ornaments now in
use with any meaning, says correspond
ent of the Helena (Montana) Herald,
writing of the Dakota Indians Eagle
feathers, the number worn showing the
number of enemies killed, the wing
feathers of the bald-headed eagle denoting
male, and the black eagle feathers denot-
ing women, are, perhaps, most prominent
If they have scalped the enemy broad
red streak is painted upon the feathers.
If the person killed was of prominence or
reputation, the feather is sometimes dyed
red. Small sticks wrapped with porcu-
pine quilts are sometimes attached to the
quill of the feather, and little pieces Of
white fur glued to the ends. No one will
wear an eagle feather unless entitled to
it, as they believe it will fly away from
their heads if worn unlawfully. The
scalp-lock is still worn even among the
so-called civilized Indians. They arrange
the scalp-lock proper an inch across, and
tie around this very firmly head-band,
and then the hair Is braided and an otter
skin is tied around it spirally, forming a
braid at least two and sometimes as much
as four feet long. This is kept oiled for
the enemy. If an Indian has the time.
and the person killed is of importance,
he will scalp off the whole from beneath
the eyebrows, including the eyes. Grizzly
claws are worn as necklaces do not be
lieve as n mark of distinction, but as they
are costly think the wearing of them is
merely matter of wealth and not of
craftsmanship.
Aside from his religious position the
Wi-cas-ta 5Sa-kan, or medicine man, is
the physician among the Dakotas, thor
oughly eonversant with the medicinal
qualified of the various herbs. To give
greater effect to his remedies he is accom-
panied by drum and rattles and indulges
in much contortion of features and limbs.
Often he sucks with his mouth over the
seat of pain-a novel way of cupping.
but often efficacious. l have seen cases
of long standing cured by these men, and
instances where the army surgeon has
given them up. One cure l have in mind
was of cataract of the eye 1t was cured
by inserting beneath the lids filings from
brass wire. The patients are always
painted red, to make their hearts strong,
they say. Often the medicine men will
cut an image out of paper or bark, and.
placing it upon the ground, the patient is
held over it, then the medicine man will
take his gun and shoot the image. de
stroying the evil spirit that has caused the
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The thing for him to do, therefore,
was to keep up the joke, and to--pleass
Manda.
He returned to the house with h nobl,
resolution.
Manda was very pretty. Nobody
would deny that.
II wasn't SO hard task being agree
able to such girl, after all.
Andso-well, why partieularize flrtheri
The Westcotts, though thrifty family,
were not wholly mercenary. And Manda
somehow managed in ! months stay to
grow pretty well into all their hearts
not excepting Jobs.
''Do you know, Job, she said, shyly,
one evening not long after the eventful
question had been propounded and re-
sponded to-''do you know that up to
the very moment l received that valen-
tine Of yours | never dreamed that you
really cared for me, except as a friendg'
Neither did /, says Job, soto voice,
and aloud:
Never mind. As long As you find a
thing out some time or other it don't
make so much difference about not know
ing at first. guess Wen make out to
be pretty happy after all, Manda, all on
account Of that valentine n-Ne9 York
Mercury.
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An Army Contractors Story.

David Nicholson, Of st. Louis, tells
the following story in the Globe Democrat:
l had a curious experience with an
army contract once-a few wears after the
war closed. / got an order for n lot of
fine groceries for officers stores. Among
the rest were twenty-seven sacks Of Java
coffee-a hundred pound to the sack. 1t
was for a station 50 far TO the West that
the freight was five cents pound. The
coffee was billed at trenty-seven cents a
pound. After while | received notifi-
cation that the coffee had been rejected,
probably on account of mildew in ocean
transportation. / wrote TO have the cof-
fee sent back, and at the proper time my
teams were there to receive it. When it
came to the store told one of the clerks
TO put ''triern into few sacks to see if
it was the same goods we had shipped.
The ''trier" came out of the first sack
filed with yellow corn. 1t was put into
another sack and pulled out with the
same result. And 50 on all round. Every
sack sent back was simply that much
shelled corn. The soldiers at the post
had taken out the coffee and probably
sold it to the country groceries, and put
corn in its place. The sacks looked all
right on the outside The same strings
had been used in sewing them up, and
everything had been done to deceive.
sent for the Quartermaster on duty here,
and showed him the fraud There was a
long controversy about it, but in the end
the government stood the loss, and l got
paid for my coffee, less the value of the
twenty-seven sacks Of corn sent back in
its place
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Making Wooden Shoes.

In the town of Clymer, Chautauqua
County, n Y, there is a large settlement
of Hollanders, the older members of
which brought from their fatherland the
simple manners and industrious habits
which have always been characteristic of
that race Nearly without exception
they are engaged in general farming and
dairying and to supplement their farming
they have introduced an industry which
is carried on in no other place in the
Union. This is the making of wooden
shoes, or clogs, which are so common in
Holland and some other foreign countries.
During the coolest days and long winter
evenings these Hollanders ply their knives
and ''shaves" almost without cessation.
The business is really monopoly, and of
late it has proved very profitable, the de
mand for the clumsy shoes for decorative
purposes not only largely enhancing their
value, which the shrewd Dutchmen were
quick TO see, but increasing the number
called for very materially. The woods
used are Eastwood and cucumber Each
shoe is bored and cut from single block.
They become so well seasoned that a pair
made in the best manner is almost in
destructible. The bulk of these shoes is
handled by a dealer in Cory, Penn, and
a large number are sent direct TO the Phil
adelphia market. 1t also requires great
many to supply the wants of the colony
itself, as the shoes are generally worn by
both sexes.-OI City Blizzard.
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Eskimo Traditions.

But, speaking of traditions, ! might
say that these people possess greet
many Of them. 1t Is. however, very diff
cult to induce an Eskimo TO speak Of
such things or of his religious belief.
The only way of extracting such Informal
ton from an Eskimo is to make him your
friend, and then getting him away from
his companions promise that you will not
tell them what he may tell you, and hav-
ing done this TO draw him step by step
into the line of conversation you want 10
get at. One of their traditions is about
the flood. and l think it is particularly
interesting. rs it is one OF many similar
legends held by the savage tribes. The
Eskimos say that a very long time ago
there was a great ram. which flooded the
earth and destroyed all men except few
who constructed large boat out Of a
number Of small ones and used II as
means Of escape. After a While the poor
creatures. being exposed t. the fury Of
the storm in their open boat, began TO he
cold and uncomfortable; 50 their chief,
standing up. threw his spears and orna-
ments into the waters, and this was sufii-
cient to pacify them and they subsidized.
They have also a romantic legend about
the origin Of the sun and moon Toronto
Mil
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who WIS bound to stand for his house If
il hadn't bed in it, ''it was very wide
bed, very wide and quite long. Two gen
tlemen could sleep in it very comfortably,
and if But the Commanding Being
at my side said that was quite altogether
cut Of the question entirely Quite He
was sorry for the-here he looked at me,
hesitated, but finally said-geutleman,
but He couldn't share His room with him.
lie was sorry for the-gentleman and
hoped he might find comfortable lodgings,
but He couldn't permit him to occupy
even portion Of His bed Then the
clerk begged pardon, and was sorry, and
all that, but this other gentleman had
registered first, and it was for him to say
what disposition should be made Of this
lonely room and solitary bed. l fastened
to assure the majestic being that
1t was all right; he was welcome
" two-thirds Of the room. all the
looking glass and one-half Of the bed.
NO" he said very abruptly. Il will
sit here by the stove and sleep in chair.
| thank you sir, but | would not sleep
with my own brother. l prefer a room
to myself l meekly told him that
didn't know what kind Of a man his
brother was, but no doubt he did, and
therefore | must conclude that he wasn't
a fit man to sleep with. But his brother
was out if the question, ami if he wanted
part of my couch, he might have il and
welcome, and would agree not TO think
Of his brother mo, sir, he said, 81
will sleep in no mans bed | said |
wouldn't either, if wasn't sleepy, but
when 1 was sleepy, didn't care; I'd
sleep with the King of England or the
President, and wouldn't care a cent who
knew il.
Well, l went to bed. l curled up I'M
der the warm, soft blankets, and heard
the wind shrek and wall and whistle and
yellow like all creation the wind can
blow in Erie-and as the night grew
colder and colder every minute, fell
asleep and dreamed that heaven was Just
forty-eight miles west of Dunkirk. About
$50 or 3 o'clock there came laundering
rap at the door, and with vague, half
waking impression in my dream that
somebody from the other place was try
ing to get in, l said;
"'What is itl"
at is l." answered splendid voice,
which l recognized at once. II am the
gentleman who came on the train with
you"
"Yes, - I said, "and what is the mat
terri
The splendid voice was trihe humble
as it replied;
a. have changed my mind about sleep
ing with another man"
$50 have ~ Ihowled, so joyously that
the very winds laughed in merry echo;
- So have / l wouldn't get out of this
warm bed to open that door for my own
brotherln
l will close this story here. If should
write the language that went down that
dim, cold hall outside my door YOU
wouldn't print it. And when next morn
ing went skipping downstairs as fresh
as rose, and saw that majestic being
knotted up in hard arm chair, looking
a hundred years old, said:
Better is poor and wise child than
an old and foolish king. who knoweth
not how to be admonished. For out of
prison he cometh to reign; whereas, also
he that is born in his kingdom becometh
poor" This also is vanity.
ROBERT ]. BURDETTE.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.


The bird spider of tropical America
has body four and one-half inches. The
circle of the ties of the legs has q diane
ter of seven inches. 1t Is so named be
cause it builds its nests to capture small
birds, lizards, and reptiles The nests
usual contain 500 to 1000 eggs.
The new Reitz alloy, the patented pro
duction of a German chemist, is a bronze
for which remarkable durability and re-
sistanee to all acids are claimed, pro
longed exposure TO concentrated muriatic
acid having caused less than half the loss
sustained by any other alloy, and other
tests having been equally successful.
Chemists are hard at work in the
French Antilles perfecting processes for
making alcohol from sweet potatoes
-Four gallons of alcohol can be made from
s25 pounds Of sweet potatoes. Portions
of the pine lands Of the Southern States
and part Of New Jersey are well adap-
ted to the growing Of the sweet potato.
While agreeing in general with the
theory that comets have their origin be
yond the limits Of the solar system, Pro
fessor Daniel Kirkwood finds proof that
some Of those Of short period are minor
planets whose orbits in the asteroid zone
have been changed through the pertub-
ing influence of the larger planets. The
third comet of 1884, for instance, seems
to have been drawn from the asteroids by
Jupiter in May, 1875.
Considerable deposits of petroleum
have been found upon the Egyptian coast
Of the Red Sea. The foreshore Is formed
of recent coral, underlying which is an
older limestone, perhaps of secondary
age. Upon piercing the recent coral to
the level of the sea, the petroleum,
mingled with water, flows into the cavi-
ty- 1t Is conjectured that the source of
the material which has lost its volatile
constituents is the older limestone be-
low.
Every one knows that the sea has
larger animals than can be found on land
but with the enormous sequoias OF Cali
fornia In mind, many may be surprised
10 learn of vegetable growth in the ocean
vastly exceeding in length, though not
in bulk, these giants of the forest. Re
Gently the ship Clever, commanded by
Sdptdiu Jonn stone, arrived AT Monte
videO with portion of a seaweed which
had been picked up in the Atlantic near
the equator. The sailors perceived an
object floating on the surface some dis
lance from the ship, and, manning boat,
they rowed to it, and ascertained that it
was an alga of enormous size. On meas
uring it, it was found to have a length |
upward of fifteen hundred feet.
OF the present destroyers of the In
dians, according to DIR. Washington
Matthews, the chief is consumption.
Census returns show that, while the death
rate among Europeans is 1774 per thou
sand, and that among Africans is les,
the rate among the indians is no less than
24.6; and that, while among the whites
166 deaths in a thousand are from con-
sumption, and among the negroes 1s6,
there are 2S6 among the Indians The
influence of civilization has greatly in
creased the consumption rate among the
Indians-the effect seeming to be partly
due to change of diet, and partly to
causes not yet understood.
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A distinguished member of the profes-
sion tells the following story Of brother
comedian. William J. Florence: Florence
in his younger days, was a great speech
maker On the least provocation he
would rush before the curtain and hurl
expressions of gratitude and promises of
a speedy return at the backs of the re-
treating audience One evening, when
he was doing one-night stands on the
New England circuit, few injudicious
auditors werS bold enough to applaud at
the fall of the curtain on the last act.
Florence darted from behind and bowed
to the audience.
Ladies and gentlemen he said, ''or
fellow townsmen, as l may call YOU.
thank you Though you may not be ac-
quainted with the fact, it was in this old
town of New Haven that | lived as boy.
Under the shade of the college elms and
by the side of the old court house spent
the happiest days of my life. see many
familiar faces before me tonight who
were boys with me then. / have met
with some appreciation in my life, but
nowhere is it more sweet and more dear
than in this my native town. To-day as
l walked the streets
At this point a gentlemen in front
whispered in a very loud voice: Mr..
Florence, this isn't New Haven, it's
Hartford
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PITH AND POINT.

How to make a girls room attractive
put the girl in it CiReiaHaii Tide
gram.
1t is only after she becomes a centenat
rian that woman is willing TO own up.
to her age.-Bost0H Post.
\ local tragedian in Minneapolis by the
name of Barol IS so given to gnashing his
teeth when he rants, that they call him a
gnash-barrel.-SJttags.
A fashion note says: =" Bangles are not
out of style, and there is much that is
new and interesting in them"-the girls,
for instance-Bost0H Post
''waiter, is this an old or a new her
ring that you brought mel' Cant YOU
tell NO" "Well. then, what diff
ference does it make F1iegeads B'at-
ter.
A German inventor has devised ma
chine for deadening the sound Of the
piano. Next to a machine for deadening
pianists this is a splendid discovery. -Sda
Francisco Examiner.
De Where did YOU learn to
make such mince pie, Mrs. McDoodle2
W udt ttuutI IttoutNtlons II ftNlNto4
Mrs. McDoodle (tenderly) Home and
mother, l suppose De Forest-"Nc,
not exactly that II reminds me Of the
dreams l had last night "-Neio Haren
Macs.
Glow do you draw a Chinamanf'
asked the Office boy, who has an artistic
tendency, this morning Easiest thing
in the world, growled Pointers on the
other side of the room. Just 60 to a
laundry and throw brick through a
window You'll draw all YOU want. -
Pittsburgh Pres.
HI HAD READ HISTORY.
A teacher stood before his class
In " History one day
Composed OF twenty-five young boys
And thus to them did say:
Now, who can tell, what is the one
Great, fundamental, grand
Foundation principle, on which
Is built this glorious landN
A small boy raised his hand, and then,
In liSping tones, said he:
" Pleath, thir, dess it must a becn
GeoTth Wathingtonth cherry tree
j. W. Burgess, Ia Sunshine.
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A clerk in an Austin store informed his
employer that his sister was going to get
married, and he wanted a furlough of
forty-eight hours to attend the wedding,
which was to take place ont in the coun-
try somewhere. The merchant could not
well spare the services of the Young man
for that length of time, but he finally con-
sented to let him go on condition that he
would return promptly at the expiration
of the two days
''As soon as my forty-eight hours are
up I'll be back, " said the young man.
hurrying off to catch the train. and that
was the last his employer saw of him for
six solid days. Then he walked in, grip
sack in hand, and a beaming smile on his
face, remarking:
Back on time
Back on time p roared the exasperated
employer. do you call six days forty
eight hoursr'
.'of course do. What else do you
call itl7
'1iave you lost the use of your mental
faculties, or are you trying, sir, to take
unwarranted liberties with mel7
ny, am surprised told you |
wanted forty-eight hours recreation,
didn't IL
Certainly. And I gave it to you"
Just so. And l work in the store
eight hours a day, don't In
"Of course"
well eight into forty-eight goes six
times, and | have been gone eight hours
day for six days, so you see I'm on
time. If there is one thing know bet
ter than another, it is how to be on hand
at the appointed hour ''-Terds Sitting.
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The Haunted Room.

Once, in the dead heart of the pitiless
winter. l had drawn my good two,
handed Lecture with the Terrible Name
and was shifting all the coasts Of Penn
svlvania with it, sparing neither pro
nounced nyther) young or old, and wear
ing at my belt the scalps of many pale
:ace audience One night reached Erie
the Pleasant just as the clocks in the Lord
Mayors castle struck twenty-one. 1t was
bitter, biting, singing cold, and there
was no ambulance at the station, while
there was good hotel there. went in
and registered, and a man of command
ing presence, tailor-built clothes and a
brown beard of most refined culture, fol-
lowed me, and under my plebeian scrawl,
made the register luminous with his pa
trician cognomen. ] stood little in awe
Of this majestic being, about as little as
usually stand in the presence Of any ma
iestic creature, and when in a deep bass,
commanding voice he ordered room
had a great mind-something that al
ways carry with me when trayel-to 90
out and get him one The gentlemanly
and urbane night clerk, who also seemed
to be deeply impressed-as is the habit of
the night cierk-with the gentleman's re-
sponsible-to-any amount foot on saWm-
bell, said he was sorry but lie had but one
vacant room, and il contained but one
bed. ''sllll, he said re became man
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KISMET.
A flower in scquestercd corner growins.

a Hover IN sequestered corner growing.
Blossomed unseen.
Meier were admired its colors' brilliant rracs.
Ne'er had been smiled on by loving face
Its leaflets green.
No one by it, in all its brief existence.
Had been made glad;
Apart from ali who would have gladly
cherished.
It had lived ont its little life and persisted.
All, fate most sad.
Another flower, not one whit more lovely.
Opened its ewes,
Where happy children gazed upon its splen
dor,
Watched the unfolding Of its petals tender,
With glad surprise.
And when, with all its beauty full developed,
1t drew near death,
In rapturous JOY, with sweetest fragrance
laden,
Upon the bosom Of a lovely maiden
Itspent its breath.
All, destiny, that with such strange diverse
ness
Doth order life
Filling some cups qnite to the brim with
gladneSs,
And giving but to others what with sadness
And woe IS rife
And yet, the Master walking in his garden,
AT eventime,
May say; well done; its only as vas
hidden,
What each most needsis in his ehalice hidden,
o children miner
Nal Kenyon in Ciurent